I. Overview 1. Introduction, Leila Christenbury, Randy Bomer, and Peter Smagorinsky 2. Sociocultural Constructions of Adolescence and Young People's Literacies, Donna E. Alvermann 3. Who Are Adolescents Today?: Youth Voices and What They Tell Us, Sam M. Intrator and Robert KunzmanII. Literacy in School 4. Contexts for Adolescent Literacy, Judith A. Langer 5. Adolescents Who Struggle with Literacy, Larry R. Johannessen and Thomas M. McCann 6. Proficient Reading in School: Traditional Paradigms and New Textual Landscapes, David O'Brien, Roger Stewart, and Richard Beach 7. Fostering Adolescents' Engaged Academic Literacy, Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf 8. Divided against Ourselves: Standards, Assessments, and Adolescent Literacy, James Marshall 9. Adolescent Second-Language Writing, Linda Harklau and Rachel Pinnow 10. Research on the Literacies of AAVE-Speaking Adolescents, Jamal Cooks and Arnetha F. Ball 11. Digital Literacies in the Classroom, Joan A. Rhodes and Valerie J. Robnolt 12. The Secondary English Curriculum and Adolescent Literacy, Robert Burroughs and Peter Smagorinsky 13. Visual Arts and Literacy, Michelle Zoss 14. Policy and Adolescent Literacy, Allan Luke and Annette Woods 15. Tracking and Ability Grouping, Jo Worthy, Holly Hungerford-Kresser, and Angela HamptonIII. Literacy Out of School 16. Preparing Adolescents for the Literacy Demands of the 21st-Century Workplace, Anne Beaufort 17. The Literacy Demands of Entering the University, Kathleen Blake Yancey 18. Literacy in Virtual Worlds, Rebecca W. Black and Constance Steinkuehler 19. Reading and Writing Video: Media Literacy and Adolescents, David L. BruceIV. Literacy and Culture 20. Literacy and Identity: Implications for Research and Practice, Cynthia Lewis and Antillana del Valle 21. Latina/o Youth Literacies: Hidden Funds of Knowledge, Carmen M. Martinez-Roldan and Maria E. Franquiz 22. Beyond Hip-Hop: A Cultural Context View of Literacy, Yolanda J. Majors, Jung Kim, and Sana Ansari 23. Boys and Literacy: Complexity and Multiplicity, Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm 24. Lessons on Literacy Learning and Teaching: Listening to Adolescent Girls, Barbara J. Guzzetti 25. Literacy Issues and GLBTQ Youth: Queer Interventions in English Education, Wayne Martino 26. The Literacies of New Immigrant Youth, Danling Fu and Jennifer M. Graff 27. American Indian Adolescent Literacy, Mary Jiron Belgarde, Richard K. LoRe, and Richard Meyer